Sermon
Faith on Fire - Pastor Will Roos
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Welcome to the Revival church Bracknell podcast joins us
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Are we? Going to go right into the web
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and he's given me Daniel chapter 3 and he's just been burning in
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my spirit. And so I just want to give to
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you what God has given to me. I want to release it to his
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people. What a privilege, what an honor
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to minister to God's people. Praise God.
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So today, yes, I want to talk to you about something powerful.
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I mean, I'm not talking about faith, but the way the Lord
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showed it to me is just phenomenal.
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I'm like, thank you, Lord for this revelation.
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I really pray you catch this revelation today because I'm
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talking about faith on fire. Hallelujah.
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Come on somebody, faith on fire. That the title of the message.
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I'll put it here on the screen. I'm talking about faith on fire.
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OK? Now, I believe this word will
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lift up your spirit. It will lift up your faith.
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It will set your heart ablaze on fire for the Lord.
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Are you ready for this church? Are you ready for fire?
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Hallelujah. Fight on fire.
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Now. I don't know what kind of a week
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you've had. Maybe you've had a good week.
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Maybe you've had a wonderful week.
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Maybe it has been a difficult week.
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Maybe it's been rough, challenging.
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Maybe you feel a little drained in your faith.
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Or maybe you have a situation where it feels like life has
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just turned out the heat on you. But I'm here to tell you, and I
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know for sure that God wants to set your faith on fire.
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Hallelujah, somebody. He wants you to know that
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whatever the situation, whatever the challenge, whatever the very
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thing that you are worried about is exactly the thing that God is
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going to use to lift you up. I mean, somebody, OK, Because
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God has purpose behind your pleasure, OK, So what looks like
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trouble, what looks like difficulty, what looks like
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struggle, what seems impossible right now is exactly what God is
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going to use to lift your faith, to set your faith on fire.
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Hallelujah. Somebody shot.
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Hallelujah. So listen, you're about, your
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fight is about to catch on fire. Get ready, Get ready somebody,
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because your fight is about to catch on fire.
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Tell your neighbors I get ready. Your fight is about to catch on
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fire. Yeah, Yeah, it's about to catch
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on fire. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
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So let's jump straight into God's Word.
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Open your Bibles with me to the book of Daniel chapter 3 and
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also the Scriptures up on the screen for you.
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And so then we're going to see in Daniel chapter 3, we're going
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to meet three brave young men, OK, who are the kind of a
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courage that we all need during tough times in life, OK.
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And so Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they stood strong.
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They stood strong during a time where everybody else was falling
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down, but they had courage. Now I want you to see this in,
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in in Daniel chapter 3. Listen carefully what they said
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during their toughest time, their toughest moment.
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Now it says here, we're going to just pick it up in verse 16 for
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the sake of time. It says there Siderek, Meshach,
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and Abednego answered and said to the king, Oh, Nebuchadnezzar,
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we have no need to answer you in this matter.
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If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver
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us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us
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from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to
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you, O King, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we
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worship the gold image which you have said.
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Wow, wow, wow. Did you hear that?
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That is bold faith. That is faith on fire.
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Hallelujah. Let's say to your Father, we
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thank you. We come before you with open
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hearts. Anoint this word.
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Let it ignite A revival fire in God's people.
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Holy Spirit, have your way full of fresh on us.
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Bring renewal, transform. Let no one live the same way.
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Let people live, each and every one of us transform,
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transfigure, and full of faith in the mighty name of Jesus
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Christ, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise God.
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And so, yes, well, the entire nation of Babylon, they bowed
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down, these three young men, they stood up.
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They chose courage instead of comfort.
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They chose conviction instead of convenience.
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I mean, somebody. So they were saying, listen,
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King God is able to deliver us and even if he doesn't, we won't
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bow down to false gods. We won't bow down to these idols
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and they're called. So see, I want to tell you
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something about conviction. It is about being sure about
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what you believe. It's sure and secure in knowing
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and standing on what you believe for the faith that you stand,
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because what you believe, what you stand for, your conviction
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is sure then nothing can shake you.
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Nothing can shake us. When you know conviction, it
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says, listen, I am sticking with God even if it's hard, even if
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it's difficult, I'm still standing with God even if it's
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difficult. Or listen, I'm sticking with God
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even if it is challenging. That is conviction.
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OK. But on the other hand,
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convenience says that, you know, I'll stick with God as long as
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it's not difficult. That's convenience.
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Convenience I'll stick with God, but you know, I'll I'll speak
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with God only it's if it's comfortable and I'll stand with
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God, but only if it's easy, then I will stand with that is
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convenience. But listen, let me tell you,
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church, OK, easy won't change your life.
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Easy won't bolt you. Easy won't strengthen your life.
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Convenience, comfort won't bolt you.
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It takes conviction. It takes the real war, genuine,
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fiery, tested faith on fire that will carry you through the most
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difficult times of your life. It takes that kind of a faith,
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that kind of a conviction of a strong, a faith that has been
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tested, a faith that is on fire that will carry you through the
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difficult times in our lives. And so I'm here to tell somebody
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today, the same Jesus who stepped into the fiery furnace,
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the same Jesus, he's about to step into your fiery situation.
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He's about to step into your situation right now until
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whatever you're facing, he is already there with you in your
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situation. And so God is turning your
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pressure into promotion. He's turning your struggle into
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strength. He's turning your test into a
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powerful testimony. Hallelujah.
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And if you're really if you really believe that God is about
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to do something amazing in your life and give God some praise,
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open your life. So Hallelujah, celebrate God
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Almighty for what he is about to do in your life.
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Hallelujah. Praise Jesus, what will be to
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God, Amen. And so back in Babylon, the both
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is huge statue, 90 feet tall statue and told everyone listen
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when you hear the music bow down.
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And so the majority there because that was the easy way.
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The majority the easy, the convenient way, the safe,
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comfortable way. And so they all wait with the
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flow. But today church, we aren't
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choosing the easy way. We are choosing faith.
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We are choosing conviction. We are choosing the ways of God.
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Today let's decide that we don't bow to anything except Jesus
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Christ. Finally, as somebody, let him
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say your faith on fire. Come on, save my faith on fire.
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Say that. Save my faith on fire.
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Say it again like me, save my faith on fire.
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Shawn, Hallelujah. Now let me share with you
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something amazing. In South Africa there is a
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special tree. And so this tree is called the
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Silver tree and it grows on Table Mountain.
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Then catch on. And so the reason they call it
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the silver tree is because when the sunlight hits the leaves,
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it's reflects and it shines like silver.
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OK, now I just want to put up a picture here for you that you
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can see how it looks like. But here's the amazing part
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about this silver tree. The seed of the silver tree is
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get hidden in a cone tightly sealed for years.
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Now let me show a picture of the cone with the seed inside.
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And so these seeds just sit there quietly, doing nothing at
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all, until one thing happens. Fire.
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When the wildfire comes, the heat of the fire breaks open the
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cone and it releases the seed. It falls into the ground for
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growing new trees. Isn't that amazing that the fire
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that seems disastrous is actually bringing new life?
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If you get that that wildfire has seen disasters actually
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bringing you life. And so in the same way with us,
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just like the silver tree, there is gifts, talents, there is
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greatness in US, OK. And so they come out only when
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life turns up, the heat when life turns up.
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Sometimes God allows difficult situations in our lives to come
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so that we can come to a place where the greatness in US is
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being released, is being unlocked.
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And so God allows these things to take place.
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Now let me ask you this. What seeds, talents or potential
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or greatness inside of you, the seeds in you is God unlocking
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right now Because your greatest breakthrough often come after it
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comes after a great challenge. And you see, you might feel
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uncomfortable in the fire, but listen, let me tell you, God has
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complete control over your situation.
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God is in complete control. You know these forest Rangers,
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they call it a controlled burn, a fire that is planned.
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It's carefully planned to clean out the old Grove and bring make
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room for new life and that is what God is doing in your life.
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He's not destroying you he's growing you Can you say I made
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somebody OK, so just like Chadwick Michigan badly go
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stepped out in a fiery fight. I'm going to give you 5 lessons
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we learn that we can apply now point number one say before you
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see it and that is the Bible says in second Corinthians
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chapter 413. It is written, I believe,
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therefore I have spoken. Since we have that same spirit
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of faith, we also believe and therefore speak.
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So what you speak out loud activates what you believe.
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Insight. Okay, so the Scripture tells us
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to speak it before you see, nothing moves until somebody
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speaks it out. So the moment that you open up
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your mouth and you declare God's promises, heaven begins to move.
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Heaven begins to shift things around.
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But staying quietly sometimes slows things down.
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But speaking boldly in faith, that sets things in motion, I
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meant. And so these three young men,
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they spoke boldly, they first spoke, they didn't wait until
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God moved. They first declared deliverance.
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They spoke it out. They said, listen, King, our God
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is able to deliver us. So they first spoke it and then
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God stepped in and moved and made it happen.
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And so that is how the promises of God becomes real in your
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life. OK, You have got to speak it
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before you see it. I meant some of you are
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listening to me right now. You are waiting on a phone call.
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You are waiting on job offers. You are waiting on business
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contracts to be signed. Some of you sitting here waiting
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for properties. You're waiting for visas to come
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through. Some of you are waiting for
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investors. Some of you are waiting for
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emails to come through. You're waiting for that business
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bill. You're waiting for a medical
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gagner, a report to come through.
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Or maybe you're waiting for Prodigal family members to come
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home. But let me just tell you
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something very, very powerful. God, when the moment you start,
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we are declaring God's promises. When you start declaring God's
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promises, God begins to work. God starts working behind the
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scenes. Angels are sent out, obstacles
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are being removed, Doors are opening wide as you are
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declaring God's promises. Can you, shall I name somebody
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now? Point #2 Emmanuel.
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God is with us, it says here in desire. 43 two.
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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and
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through the rivers they shall not overflow you.
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When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burnt.
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OK, now I will be with you. Underline that in your work,
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because God never promised us a life without problems.
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God never promised us a life with no problems.
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He never said, OK, that we're not going to have no problems in
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this world. He never said that we are never
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going to walk through fire. But what he did say is, I will
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be with you. That's the promise.
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That's the anchor where he said, listen, I will be with you.
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OK? Now faith doesn't always keep us
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out of the fiery fullness. It does always keep us out of
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the difficult challenges, but 5 carries us through the fiery
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furnace. Come on, somebody, you might
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feel the heat, you might feel the pressure, but you will not
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be destroyed. The flames will not consume you
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because Jesus is walking you through the fire.
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Hallelujah, somebody. Now I love what he says there in
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Daniel chapter 3 talking about King nigga, but Nizza.
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And so he looks into that fiery furnace and he's like, well,
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didn't we just in three? OK, wait a minute, wait a
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minute. I don't just see three.
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I'm sure we, we there was only three in there.
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OK, But yes. And even he says, listen, they
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said I see four. Oh my God, I feel like shocking
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on my spirit tonight. Hallelujah.
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I see four. And you know, the 4th, the 4th
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man, he looks like a son of God. Oh Jesus, I feel the presence of
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God in this place today. Oh, you see, listen, ladies and
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gentlemen, God could have been to me.
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He could have prevented the fire furnace.
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He could have stopped it, but instead he decided to step in.
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My God, I feel anointed. That's the God that we serve.
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He could have stopped that fire furnaces Almighty God, but he
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decided to step in. Oh my God, that is the kind of
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saviour. Listen, he's not so far off God
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on some planet, millions of bullies.
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He's not a piston God at hands of God.
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He is the kind of a saviour that gets right in.
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He steps right into the chaos. He steps right into the mess,
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into the difficulty. He steps right into your
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midnight hour distance, right into your challenging situation
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and he says, listen, my son and my daughter, I am here with you.
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I am with you in this. Oh my God, I feel anointed.
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Somebody shot Hallelujah. You know, it's like with
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somebody driving a lifeguard doesn't just stand there
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watching. Person driving, you know, like
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this with this finger is now standing on the side watching
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from a distance. If somebody's driving a
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lifeguard, they take action. The lifeguard diving, that's
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what Jesus does. Jesus dies in.
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Jesus steps into your chaos, into his future.
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He steps into. He dies into your mess.
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He dives into your loss, your confusion, your struggle.
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And when you cannot swim anymore, he holds you up.
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That's our Savior. Somebody shot.
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Hallelujah. He is with me.
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Yeah. Say that he is with me.
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Yeah, He's. He's in it with me.
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Hallelujah. My point #3 is freedom in the
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fire? Daniel 325, Look, don't put that
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one. Oh, really?
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Daniel 325, look, he answered. I see four men loose.
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OK, now I want you to get this Daniel 325.
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Look the answer. I see four men loose that word
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loose walking in the midst of the fire and they are not hurt.
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That means they are unharmed. And he says loose.
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So they're unbound. And the form of the 4th is like
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the Son of God. OK, the fire didn't kill them.
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The fire didn't even cinch the hair, but the fire burned one
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thing, OK? The fire did not burn.
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They closed. It did not burn their hair.
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The fire burned What? The ropes.
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Oh, somebody's getting this. OK, that pounding.
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OK, what # Them when they put them in the fiery furnace, the
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ropes. OK, what?
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That's what burned. The only thing the fire were the
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ropes that had them pound that got burned in the fire.
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So I need you to catch that because the fire that you're
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walking free to the it's not very to burn you up, but it's
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there to lose you. The difficult situation that
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you're walking through right now is not very to burn you or to
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destroy you. It is there to lose you, is
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there to free you. There is freedom in the player.
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There is freedom in the chance. There is freedom in that
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difficult. There is freedom in that.
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There is freedom in the resistance.
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My God, take this word and resurrect your power.
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Oh, I feel anointing this freedom in the fire of the day.
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I declare by fire and anointing by faith that there is freedom
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in your fire. There is freedom in your family.
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There is freedom in your difficulty.
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Hallelujah, Somebody shot freedom, shot, freedom, shot
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freedom, freedom. Listen, chance of falling in
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this season. Change of insecurity, chains of
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addiction, chains of fear, chains of rediction.
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It is falling. And I came to prophecy over
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somebody today. The thing that tied you up, the
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thing that helped your body is about to lose this blood.
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The thing that helped you back is about to lose this blood.
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That sickness. Oh, that depression.
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Oh, that financial strength, Oh, it is breaking in the name of
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Jesus. Oh, that limitation is breaking
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in the name of Jesus. Oh, the generational curse is
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breaking in the way the name of Jesus.
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That poverty, that lack, that seekers, that exciting, that
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fear is breaking in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Somebody shout Alleluia, even answer praise in this place if
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you are receiving this somebody, the king said, I see four in the
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fire. Glory to God.
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I feel like preaching. Oh my God, there's a fire.
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Shut up on my bones. 4/4 Yes, the 4th man.
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Oh my God, there's another one in the fire.
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I want you to get this. The 4th man is with you.
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There's another in the fire. Somebody.
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I want you to catch that in your spirit.
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There's another in the fire. The 4th man is with you.
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He's with you in your situation. He's with you when the doctors
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shakes their head. He's with you when you receive a
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medical report. He's with you when the bills
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don't add up. He is with you.
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He's with you. He is in the prison cell, in the
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hospital room, in the courtroom, in your lonely room.
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Oh, he's with you now. You may not see him, but he's
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there. You may not feel him, but he's
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right there beside you. Come on, church, give God some
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praise. I thank him that he's with you.
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Make some wise. He's with you, He's with you.
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Hallelujah. There is another in the fire.
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I feel like there is another in the fire.
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Tell your neighbor there's another in the fire.
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There's another in the fire. Yes, there's another in the
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fire. And just like these boys, when
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you come out, you are coming out better.
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You're not coming out smelling like smoke.
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You're not coming out Bailey, just making it.
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You're not coming outside. Listen, you are coming out
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loose. You are coming out anointed.
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You are coming out restored. You are coming out hold.
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You are coming out healed. You are coming out promoted and
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elevated. You are coming out stronger.
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Come on somebody, you are coming out later.
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Put your hands together. Somebody shout.
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I am coming out better. Tap your hands and give God
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praise. Hallelujah.
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My God, are you getting this? Somebody .4 God is faithful.
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Just lean in. Get this.
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This word is going deep. This is steering something deep.
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Listen carefully. All of us go through times of
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testing, but God is faithful. He knows exactly what you are
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going through, everything. Now listen chess, I want you to
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get this because His grace will keep you from being tested
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beyond your ability to come. And then Hallelujah, His place
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is sufficient. He will never let the heat get
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hotter than what you can handle. Oh Hallelujah, this is a
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comforting word. It says here First Corinthians
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chapter 10, verse 13. We all experience times of
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testing, which is normal for every human being, no one
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excluded. But God will be faithful to you,
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underline that faithful to you. He will screen filter the
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severity, the nature, the timing of every test or trial you face
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so that you can bear it. And each test is an opportunity
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to trust him more for along with every trial, God has provided
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for you a way of the sky that will bring you out of it
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victoriously. OK, so it's very clear that the
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scripture says, listen, every test that each and everyone of
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goes through every taste is screens right before it even
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hits US, it's already screamed like a heavenly filter that says
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that we each and every one of us goes through.
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Listen, it is already it's been measured.
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He measures it come on somebody, he measures it.
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He measures the weight of it first of all, and the timing of
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the test and he measures the intensity of the test and he
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trips it out. And so then he custom fathoms a
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furry furnace that is going to form you, that is going to
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strengthen you, that is going to topology for you because each
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and every one of us, we are unique.
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And so it is custom foot. So you are not in some wild
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uncontrollable desire is asked that you are in a controlled
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poon, OK? You are under the hand of God,
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who is in control, the creator of the entire universe, the
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Master Gardener. And listen, he is using the heat
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and he's got a Pomona, Indonesia said, OK, the right temperature
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for your situation, for you. And he uses the heat to burn off
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the things that we don't need. He burns the things that we
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don't need in our lives. He burns off the old habits.
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He burns off the wrong mindsets, the training, relationships.
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He uses the heat to burn it off our lives.
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So He makes room for what is about to grow in your life.
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And so he measures the temperature so that it's just
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the right heat for you to burn off the things that you don't
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need in your life. I made somebody.
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Now let me show you my testimony because when God called me into
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full time ministry to plant this church, OK, it did not feel like
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destiny, felt like disaster, OK? Because listen, we lived in
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Bristol and then just wanted I had a very good stable job at
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the height of my career, earning a big salary.
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And so yes, I the secure, I felt secure.
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But then all of a sudden, BAM, everything is gone.
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No income, no backup plan, no question, no safety net.
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And it felt like I've just been tossed into this fire, this
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firing through this on streets. I felt over wild.
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I felt completely unqualified. But now looking back, I realized
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that that wasn't just some ransom chaos.
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That was a controlled bird, not allowed me to go through that
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difficult season in my life to bring out and open up some
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things inside of me that I didn't even know were there.
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I didn't even know that I could preach.
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I didn't even know courage or both this.
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I didn't know any of that. And so I described things in the
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fire that I would never have found in comfort, easy,
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convenient, take it easy situation.
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I found things in the fire. It takes pressure to release
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potential. It takes fire to release your
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faith. And so we all walk through some
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heat during these past years. The government lockdowns,
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pandemic, business losses, loneliness, saying goodbye to
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people we love. OK, so they were real fires, but
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God's never left us. And I believe that he's saying
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to someone here right now, don't stop in the middle, don't give
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up. Now you are on the verge, you
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are on the edge of a shift. You're a power to see God's
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favour in your fire. Hallelujah.
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Now I remember when I was young in South, I was 12 years old, I
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was just cycling my bicycle there in the neighborhood.
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And back then in South Africa, the yards were open, no fences
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or security guides, all open. And I was just riding in the
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neighborhood, enjoying my bicycle, minding my own
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business. And so all of a sudden, out of
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no way, this big mass of dogs starts chasing after me.
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I mean this dog looked like it had penis in it's eyes, barking
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and growling. My heart really dropped out of
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my chest. And so even though I was
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terrified and small, something kicked in on that bicycle and I
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just started bending and I like my life depended on it and so I
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moved so far so that but I'm sure I could outrun a motorcycle
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now. That's what pressure does.
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It pulls something out of places that you didn't even know
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existence. Yeah.
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There's something about heat. There's something about
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pressure, Tiger, that it awakens hidden strength.
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I didn't even know I can pedal that fast on that bicycle until
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that dog started barking and going.
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All of a sudden, something jumped in me and I was just
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like, wow, going for now. You might not have a crazy dog
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chasing you down the street, but you might have a problem or a
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struggle breathing down your neck.
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You might. Maybe there's bulls that won't
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stop piling up. Maybe there is a medical
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diagnosis that you didn't expect.
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Maybe it's anxiety or depression or a family situation that is
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just get you feeling like you're just barely holding on.
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But how you respond in the pressure matters.
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Yes, that's right. OK.
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The way that you walk through the heat determines whether you
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come out better or better. Yeah.
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Pressure is meant to unlock potential and let real genuine
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faith arise. And so first, Peter 412 says,
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dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are
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going through. Peter didn't just say trials, he
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said fiery trials. And that tells me that there is
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some trials, some struggles, that carries heat, OK, Some
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situations that are not just tough, but they are hot,
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stretching, uncomfortable. And that is the moment to let
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real faith arise. Genuine faith, genuine tested
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faith. That is the faith of faith.
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Now look back just a few chapters, first Peter one, verse
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7. These trials will show that your
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faith is genuine. It's being tested as fire tests
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and purifies gold. And so when we take gold,
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listen, gold is refined in fire, right?
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So that is how our fate is refined.
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It's through the fire. So you're getting stronger
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through the fire. And think about it.
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Listen, a diamond only shines of the pressure, OK?
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And so in the same way you are grow stronger when you walk
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through the fire and you don't come up the same way.
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You come out where your you have been forged.
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Your faith has been forged with fire.
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You come out with tested fiery fire.
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You come out with faith on fire. The title of today's message.
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Oh my God, I thank you that you grab the thought of this
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revelation and God and God, it's faith on fire.
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That's how we come out of faith on fire.
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Hallelujah. Now next point #5 the hotter the
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fire, the higher the Father. Listen.
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The Bible says that the king turned up the furnace 7 times
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hotter. 7 is the number of perfection, the perfection of
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our fight. Listen, 7 times hotter.
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Now the king Nigabad Nizar, he thought listen, that is for
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their destruction, but really he was just preparing the stage for
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them to go higher for their promotion.
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Because the hotter you may come out, the hotter the fire, the
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higher the fiber, the hotter the fire, the higher the promotion,
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the hotter my fire, the bigger my blessing.
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Oh my God, someone say this. The hearts of my fire, the
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bigger my blessing. Put your eyes together.
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Praise the Lord, Hallelujah. And so, yeah, after the fire,
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the king that had just leave them alone, he promoted them.
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God used the fire for promotion. Promote them.
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Listen, don't miss this. The trial that you are going
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through, the fire, the storm that you're walking through, it
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is going to be the very thing that God uses to lift you up.
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The difficulty, the challenge is that going to be the very thing
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that God uses Jesus to write up your faith, to set your faith on
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fire. Hallelujah, Daniel or David said
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in Psalm 4. There's one, though, has
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enlarged me when I was in distress, OK, so he said that
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you made me stronger, made me stronger in my trouble.
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OK. He did not say you make me
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stronger at the beach, OK? He did not say you make me
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stronger when life is good and everything is easy.
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He said He made me stronger in trouble, in the distress, in the
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difficulty, OK, you in my trouble.
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Because that's when David really felt when Saul was chasing him.
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David went through the stress when Saul was chasing, when he
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found things that is inside of him before he was promoted.
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And so Psalm 66, verse 12, it says he went through fire.
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We went through fire and flood, but you're brought us to a place
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of great abundance. So the fire came before the
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favour. Okay.
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So the pain came before the promotion.
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The trial came before the powerful testimony.
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OK, I said now is not the time to give up.
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Now is not the time to stop because the fire that you write
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down, don't give up. Because on the other side,
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abundance is waiting for you. And the Bible talks about great
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abundance is waiting for you on the other side when you come out
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of the fire. Now let me share with you a true
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story from the trailer we watch. His name was Dmitri.
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And so he was an ordinary factory worker in Russia during
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the time when following Jesus was dangerous and precursor.
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You allowed precursor everything.
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And so Dmitri started a small house church in his village.
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The authorities found out about it.
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And I warned him and said, shut it down, stop preaching, stop
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praising God. But Dmitri had fire shut up in
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his buttons. Like, listen, I cannot stop
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praising my God. And so they punished him
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harshly. He lost his job, took his kids
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out of school. And so they finally threw him in
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the prison thousands of miles away from home, locked up in a
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prison with 1500 hardened criminals.
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He was surrounded, a man of faith, surrounded by violence,
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isolated, forgotten, but not by him.
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But every morning Dimitri would get up for 17 years in his cell.
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He would face E sunrise, lift his hands up and he would sing
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the same worship son. He called it his heart song,
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Dimitri's heart song. And so the other prisoners, they
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hated it. They cursed him.
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They threw fresh they marching. But Dimitri, he's just saying
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anyway. And not just that he would
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written scriptures, find script papers and he would write the
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scripture. I put it in the pillar in his
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cell, the crack pillar. And these notes said Jesus is
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alive. Jesus is alive.
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And so these gods did everything.
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They came to break Dimitri. They mocked him and they lied to
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him. And one day they told him that
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his wife is dead and his children has been taken away.
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And that broke him. And he decided, and he agreed to
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write the confession to deny his faith in Christ.
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He agreed to sign the confession to deny Christ.
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But let me tell you something about the faithfulness of God.
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That same night, in his cold, darkened prison, Dmitri heard
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his family praying for him. Not in, not in person.
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He heard his family praying. Not through a phone call.
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Supernaturally, by the power of the Holy Spirit, God allowed him
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to hear the voice of his wife. Oh my Lord, Jesus, fire Jesus.
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He could hear the voice of his wife praying for him.
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He could hear the voice of his children praying for him
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supernaturally and that sound of his family praying for him that
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brought life back. And he just, he just life came
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back and he tore up the confession and he just shouted,
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I'm a child of God. I am a servant of the living God
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and his name is Jesus. Hallelujah glory I shot.
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And so later they came to execute him.
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And so as the gods marching down, they down the hallway and
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they, the gods expected silence. But as they reached the end,
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just before they reached the end, all of a sudden something
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happened. 1 by 1. Every prisoner got up 1500 mains
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to their to their feet. They turned E they lifted their
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hands and they sang the same heart song, Dimitri's heart
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song. Together they sang the same song
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they once mocked. It echoed like Thunder in that
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prison. The gods froze and they
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whispered, Who is this man? And Dimitri, the kid, I'm a
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child of God. I am a servant of the living
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God. His name is Jesus, and those
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gods didn't kill him. They marched him right back to
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his shell. And not long after that, Dimitri
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was released for prison. Hallelujah.
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He didn't leave that prison broken.
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He didn't leave that prison. But he walked out bold,
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anointed. And when he got home, revival,
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spread night, wildfire. I'm asking you, what about you?
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If one person with no microphone, no building, no
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resources, no platform, if he could shake a nation, what could
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happen if you stood up in your fire?
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What would happen in your workplace?
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What would happen in your school, in your college campus?
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What would happen in your family if you decided I We will worship
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no matter what? Hallelujah.
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If you've got a song, you've got a weapon.
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If you've got faith, you've got power.
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Come on, church. Let's rise like Dimitri.
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Let's shake our regions. Shake our neighborhoods, shake
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our nation, shake our schools, our businesses.
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Let's rise up. Hallelujah.
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Come on and declare with the the fire that is set up in our pose
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and the praises on our lips, We are, we are children of God.
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I am a child of God. I'm a servant of the living God.
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His name is Jesus. I will worship.
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I will care about persecution in Africa.
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I don't care about persecution in the Middle East or in the you
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gotta care. I know whatever it takes, Jesus
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is worth it. Jesus is worth it.
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Jesus is worth it. Holy is worth it.
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Hallelujah. That's as we come to the end of
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this message. When a person of faith full of
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faith. When a person of faith on fire
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walks into the room, heaven takes notice.
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Oh my God, angels sign on attention.
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When a person of faith walks into the room, Oh my God, Heaven
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opens, Hell starts tremble because there's a faith on fire.
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There's a person, there's a woman, there's a man, there's a
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son, there's a daughter, a man and a woman of faith that he
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just walks into the room. Hallelujah.
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Hell stores tremble. That's right.
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You're not just anybody. You're a child of God.
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Hallelujah. The same Jesus who speak into
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that fiery feathers, the same Jesus who speak into that
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Russian prisoner of the bed. He's standing with you.
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Jesus is standing with you. You're not alone.
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And this is the hour we are living in a fiery tested hour of
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persecution that city developed. We are standing under a testing
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of a fiery fight. And so you were made to carry
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fear. You were made to bow to fear.
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You were made to carry fire. You are a fire carrier.
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A five person, 5:00 on. Fire.
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And so every difficulty, every challenge you face, whatever
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situation it is, that is your chance to show the world that
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Jesus is alive and that is still show up in fire.
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Amen. Let's all stand, rise to your
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feet, right, God, because I believe this is a divine moment
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when faith comes alive. Every furnace you face, every
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battle you fought, God is spreading it around into
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breadfruit, into blessing Jesus, the 4th man in the fire is right
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here ready to change everything. And so if you've walked into the
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place and you feel pound, you feel cold, you're feeling stuck
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today by the authority in the name of Jesus, you are living
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hoosed, you are living free. If your faith came in cold, it's
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about to be set up, lives on fire, a faith that is on fire.
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I'm talking about a faith that transformed the way you talk,
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the way you walk your mind, your mission, your mood.
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This is your moment, so that's your heart.
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If you say Pastor War, I need fresh fire.
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I need fresh touch. They lift those hands right now.
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Let me pray over you. Father, we thank you for being a
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consuming fire. You're the God who steps into
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our struggle, Lord, which stands in our furnace.
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Lord, let your word burn in our hearts right now.
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We will not bow to fear. Father, burn away the Rose.
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Burn away anxiety, guilt, shame, addiction, insecurity,
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confusion. Partners, holy partners, holy,
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holy spoilers, holy. In every worries of you remain
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Jesus. Walk into every home, walk into
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every marriage, every job situation, every doctor's
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reports, every broken heart, every anxious mind.
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Beautiful man in every fire. Make this church a blaze of
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revival. Fire we change, full of
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miracles. Break heart, break loose when
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our souls come home. Set us on fire so bright.
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Let our neighborhood leave Bracknell.
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Let the UK see your fire in US. Let the people feel the heat of
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Jesus around. Come us on the side.
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Give them a fire in place. Give them a sign of fire, a fire
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in place. Let's declare this out loud.
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I'm not alone. The 4th man is with me.
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Jesus is in the fire with me and He's bringing me out better and
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stronger. I'm promoted.
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I will not bow to fear. I will not bow to doubt.
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I stand in faith and my faith, He's on fire.
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Holy Ghost and fire, but size also the Holy Ghost and fire.
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So lean in one moment. This is holy ground.
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If you've never invited Jesus into your life, if you need a
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fresh start, a clean slate, do other with God.
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This is your moment right now. Don't wait another moment.
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I want to give you an opportunity.
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If you want to give your life to Jesus or recommit your life,
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that's you. I invite you to lift your hand
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up right now. Lift your hand up.
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I see those hands. Thank you everybody.
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Just pray out loud. Jesus, I invite you to come into
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my life to be my Lord and my Saviour.
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I repent of my sins. Come into my heart.
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I give you my life. Follow me with your spirits.
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Follow me with your fire. Set my faith on fire.
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Amen. Hallelujah.
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Come and welcome the family. Well from this ceremony there is
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a matter to Muslim or rededicate their lives.
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Somebody give God praise. Hallelujah you are now flame
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carriers. You walk out here today with
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your fire in your soul. This week you are walking with
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fire and so people will feel the heat of Jesus around you, not
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fear, not doubt. The full blown Holy Ghost fire
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praises around you, the world. Even in the supermarkets where
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you are walking, people walk around you and there will be a
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heat of fire around you. That's the fire of the Holy
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Ghost. The conviction of the Holy Ghost
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from applying this for 20 seconds. 5 on fire, 5 on fire, 5
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on fire applies. Applies someone Jesus Christ 5
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on fire. It's planning it's planning.
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It's planning. It's planning fire Come on next
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week. It's been to cause Sunday.
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Don't listen. Don't listen.
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The fire is falling. Come on, this church following
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your fire, this thing is that we look at your asses.
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Listen. No, no, it will be on fire.
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It will be fire. Fire in the world.
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What they define it on the wall?